Recovering Our Ability to Feel (Prentis Hemphill): TRAUMA

Pulling The Thread with Elise Loehnen

Elise Loehnen

Society & Culture, Religion & Spirituality, Self-improvement, Education

4.8 • 900 Ratings

🗓️ 3 June 2024

⏱️ 50 minutes

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“I think we need each other. I say this all the time, there are some things that are too big to feel in one body. You need a collective body to move them through. And I think that's what we need. We need to come together in spaces to heal, not just to consume together or to watch a movie together, but to feel together and to have human emotion in real life, in public and act from the place of a feeling body, to choose action from a feeling body and not just a reactive or a numb body, but a body that feels, a body that can connect. What kind of actions do you take in the world from that kind of body? I think it's different.” So says Prentis Hemphill, therapist, embodiment facilitator, and author of the just-released, What it Takes to Heal: How Transforming Ourselves Can Change the World. In today’s conversation—the final in a four-part series—we explore a path to putting ourselves, and the collective, back together, and how this begins with a visioning…but a visioning born from getting back in touch with how we actually feel. I loved their book—just by reading along with Prentis’s own path to re-embodiment, I found myself finding similar sensations in my chest, back and heart. In today’s conversation, we talk about somatics, yes, but also about conflict—and what it looks like to become more adept with our emotions in hard times. This is one of my favorite conversations I’ve had to date on Pulling the Thread—I hope you enjoy it too. MORE FROM PRENTIS HEMPHILL: What it Takes to Heal: How Transforming Ourselves Can Change the World Prentis’s Website The Embodiment Institute Follow Prentis on Instagram RELATED EPISODES: PART 1: James Gordon, M.D., “A Toolkit for Working with Trauma” PART 2: Peter Levine, Ph.D, “Where Trauma Lives in the Body” PART 3: Resmaa Menakem, “Finding Fear in the Body (TRAUMA)” Thomas Hubl: “Feeling into the Collective Presence” Gabor Maté, M.D.: “When Stress Becomes Illness” Galit Atlas, PhD: “Understanding Emotional Inheritance” Thomas Hubl: “Processing Our Collective Past” Richard Schwartz, PhD: “Recovering Every Part of Ourselves” To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi, it's Elise Loonen host of Pulling the Thread. Today is the final episode in a four-part series on tools for transforming trauma. I'm joined by the exceptional Prentice Hempel, whose brand new book, What It Takes to Heal, is one of the most nuanced books on trauma I've read of late. I loved our conversation.
0:25.6	You know what that is.
0:27.9	An ice cold beer.
0:29.3	What's different?
0:32.5	It's Budweiser,
0:35.4	a perfect beer for party season.
0:40.9	Best enjoyed with your best butts.
0:43.5	Cheers to that.
0:46.5	Budweiser, like no other.
0:48.0	Please drink responsibly. For the facts, visit drinkaware.com. Okay.
1:05.0	Hi, it's Elise Loonan, host of Pulling the Thread. On this show, we pull apart the web in which we all live to understand who we are and why we're here. Pulling the thread is
1:13.0	about big questions, why we do what we do, how we can understand our own experiences within a larger
1:18.6	spiritual and historical context, the ways in which we might begin to understand ourselves and
1:23.8	each other better, and what's required to heal ourselves and our world.
1:28.2	I'll be joined in conversation by luminaries and wise elders, those who have laid tracks in
1:33.0	their work and lives to help us bring meaning and understanding to a world that often feels
1:37.8	chaotic and overwhelming. My hope is that these conversations spark moments of resonance
1:42.7	and plant tiny seeds of awareness
1:44.8	so that we might all collectively learn and grow. I think we need each other. I say this all the
1:52.3	time. There's some things that are too big to feel in one body. You need a collective body to move
1:56.2	them through. And I think that's what we need. We need to come together in spaces to heal, not just to consume together or to watch a movie together,
2:05.6	but to feel together and to have human emotion in real life, in public, and act from the place of a feeling body,
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